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This is the touching moment French player Antoine Griezmann gave the team's football to the young son of slain policeman Jean-Baptiste Salvaing.

The moving gesture was captured on camera at the end of the Euro 2016 last 16 game against Republic of Ireland.

Salvaing and his companion, administrative agent Jessica Schneider, were killed at their home in a Paris suburb on June 13 by knife attacker Larossi Abballa, who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

The killings came as France, which has been under a state of emergency since Islamic State gunmen and bombers killed 130 people in Paris last November, was on high security alert for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament.

Antoine Griezmann made the moving gesture after Sunday's game (Photo: Getty)

Griezmann, 25, who scored both of France's goals during Sunday's game in Lyon, is proving to be one of the national team's star players during the tournament.

The Atletico Madrid striker was relatively unknown in France for years and did not win his first cap until March 2014.

Griezmann hands the ball to the young boy (Photo: Reuters)

Thirty more caps and 10 goals later, he has become familiar to fans who were quick to adopt the nickname "Grizou" for the football star.

The boy's father was killed by a man claiming allegiance to ISIS (Photo: Reuters)

Griezmann's sister, Maud, was at the rock concert at the Bataclan hall when 90 people were killed in the November 13 attacks in Paris . She escaped unhurt.

Griezmann was playing for France in a friendly against Germany that same night at the Stade de France, where three suicide bombers also blew themselves up outside the stadium.